We were very excited this week now that it’s December. Each morning we talk about the day, date and season and were delighted to finally change our board to winter and the 1st December! Because so many children open advent calendars before they come to school we all know the date each morning! For our class advent we are taking it in turns to unwrap a picturebook each day, this morning it was How the Grinch stole Christmas.
We’ve been doing lots of writing this week. We’ve been writing rhyme words and then hanging them on our rhyme tree. We’ve also been writing some silly sentences with our rhyme words. This week for our imaginative writing we wrote a story with the title ‘The Icy Puddle’ and did some great picture plans to help us plan our writing. We’re also focusing lots on capital and lowercase letters and putting them in the right place in our sentences.
In numeracy we’ve now moved on to subtraction to 20. We’ve been writing addition and subtraction sums for our partners. In our play we’ve also been using the Cuisenaire rods – this group were proud to share that they had made the numbers to 30.
We have started our Christmas crafts – last week we made reindeer for Mrs Ryalls’ corridor displays and this week we did a great job very carefully painting robins on wooden discs. All classes are decorating their doors and we’re having a snowy woodland scene.
